Jetway P55 HI05 motherboard review

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Jetway HI05 motherboard

Immediately after unboxing you will notice you are dealing with a value segmented product. Small bundle, yet we do like the looks of the motherboard. Nice dark PCB, orange/yellow color schema and the usual complementary products. As such you'll find one motherboard, a manual that explain every aspect of the board other than that you'll find a back I/O panel protector, SATA cables, an IDE cable and also en extra USB port header cable, we like that as many manufacturers leave them out these days.

Missing - a SLI bridge connector, and as such we assume this board is not SLI certified/capable despite having two PCIe x16 slots.

Jetway HI05 motherboard

We stated this already but expect the Jetway P55 HI05  to be found in the be in the 125 USD / 100 EUR price range. The board has a classic design with the dark themed color scheme. But look at the connectivity on that motherboard there. Let's zoom in a little and focus on the back-panel connectors.
 

Jetway HI05 motherboard

Check that out, from left to right that's a combined PS2 keyboard connector. Then I count a total of eight USB 2.0 ports and 1x a eSATA port, 2x Gigabit Ethernet. Digital audio in the form of coaxial and optical TOSLINK connectors (we love that), and then all the way to the right the analog audio connectors. Also the little button is a CMOS clear switch. Well, that certainly is a good start, that back panel is stuffed full to the last square inch.
Audio is managed by Realtek's HD audio chipset (ALC888) by the way.
 

Jetway HI05 motherboard

When we flip the board around we stumble into the processor area. We spot the 8-pin CPU power header located perfectly, we see ferrite core chokes and high quality capacitors, next to obviously the all new Socket 1156. This is the new socket design for Core i5 processors 750 and Core i7 860/870 processors

Everything nicely passively cooled, we like no noise products alright. Below the processor socket you can spot the dual-channel DIMM slots, DDR3. Let's go over there.

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